1900 VFA season

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1900 premiership season
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Premiers Footscray
(3rd premiership)
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The 1900 Victorian Football Association season was the 24th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club; it was the third premiership in the club's history, and the third in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900.

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Association membership

The size of the association increased from eight teams to nine in 1899, with the Essendon Town Football Club joining the association. Essendon Town was newly established as a senior club in March 1900, [1] and played its matches at the Essendon Cricket Ground – distinguishing it from the existing Essendon Football Club (formerly in the Association but now competing in the League), which played its home matches at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, approximately six miles away from Essendon. Like its league counterpart, Essendon Town wore black and red uniforms. Brunswick, which until this season had worn black and red uniforms, changed to black and white uniforms. [2]

Ladder

The premiership was decided on the basis of the best record across sixteen rostered matches, with each club playing the others twice.

1900 VFA ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPTS
1 Footscray (P)16151084735760
2 Williamstown 16133056841148
3 Richmond 16106055056440
4 Prahran 1697068963736
5 Port Melbourne 1688053654632
6 North Melbourne 1679058256028
7 Brunswick 16610049855824
8 Essendon Town 16313044166912
9 West Melbourne 1611504158194
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [3]

Awards

Notable events

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References

  1. "Football". The Argus. Melbourne. 2 April 1900. p. 9.
  2. Half-Forward (14 April 1900). "Football". The Independent. Footscray, VIC. p. 3.
  3. 1 2 3 Old Boy (10 September 1900). "The Association Clubs – Footscray Premiers". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 9.
  4. "Williamstown v. Brunswick". Williamstown Chronicle. Williamstown, VIC. 7 July 1900. p. 3.
  5. "Football". North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Advertiser. 21 September 1900. p. 3.